Archive for October 2008

Bacula Scheduling

Posted on October 29, 2008, 8:24 pm, by David Craddock, under Uncategorized.

Bacula is a great open-source distributed backup program for Linux/UNIX systems. It is separated into three main components:

One ‘Director’ - which sends messages to the other components and co-ordinates the backup
One or more ‘File Demons’ - which ‘pull’ the data from the host they are installed from.
One or more ‘Storage Demons’ - which ‘push’ [...]

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Linux under Hyper-V

Posted on October 9, 2008, 11:30 pm, by David Craddock, under Uncategorized.

This is an overview of current Linux support under Hyper-V, the free Windows Server 2008 virtualisation product.
As you probably know, virtual servers allow the emulation of hardware in software. So you have a single physical ‘virtual server’. This virtual server emulates the physical hardware for several ‘virtual machines’ which sit on top of the virtual [...]

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